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Hi, this is Steve Sassy, Regional Director for the Americas at Data Center Hawk. And I'm with I'm Daniel Cohen, Senior Advisor for Latin America as well. Today we're here in downtown Miami right across the Mia one or known as Nap of Americas. This is one of the most interconnected building in the US Steve used to work here and today we're going to share some facts about this building. So Steve would like to to start with the topology of the building. Miami is sometimes has some hurricanes here, but this building is prepared for that. Go ahead, share some facts. Yeah. So Daniel, so this building has been around for a long time, since 2001, right? So it's gone through a lot of hurricanes that have come through the region has never had any issues with outages. This building is constructed 6 floors, the 2nd floor and up is the color space. So no critical infrastructure on the 1st. Of course, so you could have the whole first floor flooded and you could still be functioning no problem. The colors on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor. The 5th floor was just recently finished by Equinox. I think they added about 5 megawatts of power and about 1200 racks. The 6th floor still has to be built out. They'll probably start that pretty soon. So plenty of space. Every floor here is 150, 000 square feet of space. So if you think about it, this is this is like 5 data centers, one on top of the other. What would happen if a hurricane came to the city and affected the building And, and how much time would they get refilled? Yeah. So right now they obviously you don't keep you keep about one day's worth of diesel fuel right now because the fuel can get dirty and they have to clean it and so forth. But if, if they are forecasting a storm, they'll come and fill up the tanks. They would have about 3 days worth of fuel to power the whole building without outside any outside energy. And also they're, they're considered critical infrastructure. For the for the city of Miami so and there's also some government equipment government has about a third of a four here. So they will be refueled. They'll be refueled the same time as hospitals and police stations. OK amazing. And of course map of the Americas is is known for their interconnection. Share some facts about the submarine cables that land here that connects here in the importance of this building to Latin America and Central America. Yeah so this is the part that one of the four more standard. Active buildings in all of the US that the other three are 350 Cermak in Chicago, Ashburn Equinix DC-2, which was really what was used to be called May East and 1 Wilshire in Los Angeles. So and this one and this one make up the 4th most interconnected sites in in the US. There are 18 submarine cables that that terminate traffic here that come into the South Florida region and they're bringing in a lot of traffic from the Caribbean, from Europe, from Latin America and there's probably. About 160 carriers that have popped in this facility, and I would say about 80 of them are Latin American carriers. Yeah. Of course, before those South American countries had their direct interconnection, the connection used to come through here then back to Latin America, Right? Yeah. I mean, I still think a lot of that still comes through here because the fiber, remember the geography of Latin America. You have the Andes between Argentina and Chile. You have the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Yeah. So there's a lot of. Geographical barriers. So it's cheaper to to come up via the submarine cables here and then go back down then sometimes using a local firefighter interconnect some of these countries. OK, thanks. You have a fun fact to share with the audience. Yes. So way back when I was working here, there was a Latin American national carrier. I won't say what country who it was, but they had, they had some, I wouldn't say financial difficulties, they just had not paid some of their bills for. Equipment manufacturer, well, that equipment manufacturer was able to get a judge to, to allow the, the equipment manufacturer to, you know, grab any, any assets that they're carrier had in, in the US. So a US Marshall showed up to, to take this equipment away and we were able to delay the decisions and they were able to go to the court. But if we had allowed them to take that equipment, it most likely the, the Internet in that country and this is a pretty large South American country would have gone dark. Because of this requirement not not being here. So it's it's some, some, some of these things people don't hear about. But this is a very well interconnected site. There was a time here when they said about 90% of Latin American traffic went through this building. And I would obviously now things are more distributed. So it's no longer the case, but it's, it's a key facility for that time. Yeah, amazing. Thanks, Steve. Anything else? I don't care. No, I just think if you come to downtown Miami, this is very different now than it used to be, but this facility. In the middle of downtown, there's a lot of nice multi $1, 000,000 condominiums around this. And you would never think there's a data center here in this beautiful area of downtown Miami. So take a look up and see if you see the Equinox sign, two large satellite dishes on the roof. And that's, that's, that's the data center. And what about the capacity? What they have like total capacity here in this building in their six floors? Yeah, so, so right now there's about 20 megawatts of it capacity for for this for the floors. 2 through 5, they do have about 8.5 megawatts of planned capacity that will probably be activated once they they start selling the rest of the 5th floor and they finished the 6th floor Explorer. Yeah, they have some some really critical clients here, right? Like the airport, hospital banks. Yeah. So Florida, Florida line powers here, the hospital, city of Miami's here. So doing during hurricanes and emergencies, a lot of the emergency services come to this Miami Police as Miami police as well. Yeah. OK. OK. Well, thank you very much. Well, thanks very much everyone. Thanks to Steve for sharing all these facts and insights. Thanks for having me here in your city, Miami. It was amazing. And see you guys next time. See you later. Thank you.